Usually means: Crystalline deposits forming on surfaces.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word efflorescing:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. efflorescing: Merriam-Webster
  2. efflorescing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. efflorescing: Vocabulary.com
  4. efflorescing: Wiktionary
  5. Efflorescing, efflorescing: Dictionary.com
  6. Efflorescing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Efflorescing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. efflorescing: FreeDictionary.org
  9. efflorescing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. efflorescing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. efflorescing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. efflorescing: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (effloresce)

verb:  (intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.
verb:  (intransitive, chemistry) Senses relating to chemistry.
verb:  Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.
verb:  Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.
verb:  Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).
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